THE television in Zuheir Rajabi s lounge does not show films or the news: the only footage projected on its huge flat screen is from 10 surveillance cameras installed around his modest east Jerusalem home.
Rajabi lives in Silwan, a poor neighbourhood just outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, made up of dusty trash-strewn alleys, with electrical cables dangling low off their poles.
The moustached 49-year-old Palestinian told AFP that the surveillance footage offers him a sense of protection in case Jewish settlers harass him or clashes with Israeli police erupt again outside his door. This piece of paper proves my father bought this land from a Palestinian in 1966, Rajabi said, waving an Arabic document from the Jordanian authorities who controlled east Jerusalem until 1967, when Israel seized it in the Six Day War.
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The predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem | AFP Asharq Al-Awsat
The television in Zuheir Rajabi s lounge does not show films or the news: the only footage projected on its huge flat screen is from 10 surveillance cameras installed around his modest east Jerusalem home.
Rajabi lives in Silwan, a poor neighbourhood just outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, made up of dusty trash-strewn alleys, with electrical cables dangling low off their poles.
The moustached 49-year-old Palestinian told AFP that the surveillance footage offers him a sense of protection in case Jewish settlers harass him or clashes with Israeli police erupt again outside his door.
In East Jerusalem, a battle over every inch of land is waged
Palestinians in the poor neighborhood of Silwan claim Jews have taken control of land that historically belonged to them, a premise which settlers generally reject
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Published: 12.20.20 , 13:37
The television in Zuheir Rajabi s lounge does not show films or the news: the only footage projected on its huge flat screen is from 10 surveillance cameras installed around his modest east Jerusalem home.
Rajabi lives in Silwan, a poor neighborhood just outside the Old City in east Jerusalem, made up of dusty trash-strewn alleys, with electrical cables dangling low off their poles.